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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forgot to add, in my opinion TJ is a diverse school even though it is STEM focused. While it is not racially diverse, all the students there have many diverse interests and hobbies and as long as the admissions process is fairly picking the kids who are the most likely to succeed there, I don't think the current lack of racial diversity is a completely terrible thing. But at the same time we should continue to keep finding ways to change that. That should not include lowering the STEM bar for the school. It should include identifying and supporting kids from an early age through programs that could prepare them for a math/science path, so that they could apply and succeed at TJ. This means putting in money and programs in the elementary schools that have many underepresented minorities to help lower the gap that widens by middle school.[/quote]

I'm not sure why people keep saying TJ is not racially diverse!  It may not have enough number of American White, American Black and American Hispanic populations (based on some notion of equity in people's minds about a school having to represent the population mix of the county) but it does have a wide variety of other races - Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Indian and Nigerian.  Sure you classify most of them as "Asian" but they have nothing in common except for the continent they came from. Different cultures, different languages, different religions.. 
 
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I fully agree with you, and the rest of the kids there as well... many of which also have parent backgrounds from the rest of the world and other continents. Racially diverse was meant as not diverse specifically in terms of representation of Blacks and Hispanics. Also definitely not diverse in terms of economic class as a whole.[/quote]

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